Stepping into the room, I was confronted by, yes, the real Anne Bisson, who was duetting with herself on one of the tracks from her Blue Mind LP on Fidelio.
It is a tribute to the system, which featured the new Genesis G5.3 speakers ($26,500/pair)—a development of the 5.2 that I reviewed in February 2006— driven by a Burmester 909 Mk.5 power amplifier ($69,995),…
As showed off by General Manager Cliff Johnson, the system is one of many…
The session started with a discussion from Albert Von Schweikert, who, after…
Final attendance figures were not available by press time, but T.H.E. Show President Richard Beers and Los Angeles & Orange County Audio Society President Bob Levi feel safe in saying, by examining pre-registration, name badges printed, and on-site sales, that over 7500 unique visitors—perhaps as high as 8000—attended over the three-day period (June 1–3). Those visitors were spread over two hotels, which between them…
Speak No Evil (recorded on Christmas Eve), though Shorter's third album for the label as a leader, was the first that set him apart as a major-league composer, a standing confirmed the following year, when, as…
The Cherry Thing, the surprising album from vocalist Neneh Cherry and free-jazz trio The Thing (Mats Gustafsson on saxophones, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten on bass, Paal Nilssen-Love on drums) will be released by Smalltown Supersound on June 19th.
We listened to “Dream Baby Dream” and watched the video for “Accordion,” and now, thanks to NPR’s First Listen series, we can stream The Cherry Thing in its entirety.
If you like what you hear, you might also enjoy Four Tet’s “Dream Baby Dream” remix.
My full review of The…
Directed and produced by Craig Ward, the video is enchanting, magical, strange. What are those delicate white lines? Icicles? Spider webs? Crystals? The press release offers only a cryptic explanation: “The movements of a music-box ballerina are reinterpreted in a groundbreaking video for British composer Ryan Teague using electromagnetic fields, subzero temperatures, and 2000 volts of electricity.”
A behind-the-scenes look offers more clues:
Craig Ward explains:
When I…
I still feel that way, but, if you’d like a second opinion, Art Dudley provided a complete equipment report in our May 2011 issue. Art concluded, “[The RP1 is] well-made, attractive, apparently durable, and demonstrably superior to any other self-standing audio source at its price. Perhaps best of all, the RP-1…
This is the band’s third album since the original trio (the possessed J. Mascis on guitar, sexy librarian Lou Barlow on bass, and merciless Murph on drums) reunited in 2005, and it’s their 10th full-length since their 1985 Homestead Records debut. Amazing to think that we’ve enjoyed nearly 30 years of this blistering, pummeling music, this distinct and soaring sound. Even more amazing to know that nearly 30 years is hardly enough.
I Bet on Sky will be available from Jagjaguwar…
“But I need new over-ears,” I pleaded.
“What do you want me to do about it?”
“Nothing, I guess. Maybe show some sympathy?”
“Fuck off.”
It was getting serious. I was getting my drummer involved, but he didn’t care.
He didn’t care that my Sony MDR-V150s distorted at high volumes and always pinched out a chunk of hair from my balding scalp after I took them off. He didn’t understand that my favorite Grado SR60s (More SR60 links: Corey Greenberg’s review and Jim Austin’s review) had a broken earpiece frame…